Benefits
XP and other agile methodologies favor face-to-face communication over comprehensive documentation and quick adaptation to change instead of fixation on the problem. User stories achieve this by:
- Being very short. They represent small chunks of business value that can be implemented in a period of days to weeks.
- Allowing developer and the client representative to discuss requirements throughout the project lifetime.
- Needing very little maintenance.
- Only being considered at the time of use.
- Maintaining a close customer contact.
- Allowing projects to be broken into small increments.
- Being suited to projects where the requirements are volatile or poorly understood. Iterations of discovery drive the refinement process.
- Making it easier to estimate development effort.
- Require close customer contact throughout the project so that the most valued parts of the software get implemented.
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